Video-Sharing Web Site to Combat Piracy
With Digital-Fingerprinting Technology

By

Kevin J. Delaney

Updated May 11, 2007 12:01 a.m. ET

France's Dailymotion SA says it will begin blocking users from putting pirated clips on its video-sharing site by using so-called fingerprinting technology from Audible Magic Corp.

The move represents an effort by closely-held Dailymotion, a popular site accessed by users around the world, to distance itself from the uploading and viewing of clips from TV shows and movies without their copyright holders' permission. While critics say the technology Dailymotion plans to use is not perfect, the French site's adoption of it...